Bakaye Surname
Approximately 279 people bear this surname
Bakaye Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 85 | 1:2,084,032 | 72,421 |
| Niger | 79 | 1:242,937 | 7,779 |
| DR Congo | 48 | 1:1,539,158 | 86,567 |
| Uganda | 18 | 1:2,168,849 | 67,754 |
| Ivory Coast | 14 | 1:1,647,945 | 32,915 |
| Benin | 11 | 1:939,600 | 46,216 |
| Turkey | 9 | 1:8,646,825 | 130,497 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| United States | 3 | 1:120,819,644 | 1,331,040 |
| Mauritania | 2 | 1:2,047,432 | 30,537 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
Bakaye (5,101) may also be a first name.
Bakaye Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Bakaye Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Bakaye (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺑﻜﺎﻱ) is borne by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It can also be found as:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Bakaye? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 940,398th most frequently occurring last name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 26,120,236 people. This last name is mostly found in Africa, where 92 percent of Bakaye reside; 67 percent reside in West Africa and 36 percent reside in Atlantic-Niger Africa. It is also the 95,026th most frequently held given name worldwide, held by 5,101 people.
This last name is most frequently used in Nigeria, where it is held by 85 people, or 1 in 2,084,032. In Nigeria Bakaye is most numerous in: Rivers, where 60 percent live, Bauchi, where 24 percent live and Plateau, where 16 percent live. Other than Nigeria this last name occurs in 15 countries. It is also common in Niger, where 28 percent live and The DR Congo, where 17 percent live.
Phonetically Similar Names
Bakaye Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Bakaye in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺑﻜﺎﻱ | bkay | 50 |
| ﺑﻜﻴﺎﻩ | bkyah | 25 |
| ﺑﻜﺎﻳﺔ | bkayt | 25 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Bakaye
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